Interesting. Thanks for the update. Silently failing to restart seems worse, or at least bad in a different way. Because now if I make a change and don't see the effects, I'm just going wonder why my changes aren't having any effects.

As you intimiated, the best user experience would be to see the error in the browser, and it isn't easy to do this via restarts, unless you've got a proxy in front of your main server that can display the error.